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Learning Material Design

You're reading from   Learning Material Design Master Material Design and create beautiful, animated interfaces for mobile and web applications

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Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785289811
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Revealing and hiding


Placing views and view groups in a layout and setting them as invisible, to be revealed later, is a lightweight and useful technique for changing the appearance of a screen without having to load separate activities or fragments. Furthermore, the circular reveal is designed specifically with material in mind.

Any view can be hidden and revealed, but for the sake of this exercise, we will use the following ImageView XML definition:

<ImageView
android:id="@+id/image_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:src="@drawable/some_image"
android:visibility="invisible" />

Reveal animations can be triggered by almost any event, but here we will simply use a button press. In your Java activity file, declare the button and image views as fields:

private ImageView imageView;
private Buttton button;

These need to be associated with their XML counterparts in the...

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